Word Finder - duller

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Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.

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All these knives are dull.

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Boring; not exciting or interesting.

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He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.

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Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.

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Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.

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Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.

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Sluggish, listless.

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Cloudy, overcast.

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It's a dull day.

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Insensible; unfeeling.

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Heavy; lifeless; inert.

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(of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.

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Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.

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(of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.

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One who, or that which, dulls.

The battle still raged in the distance, the colors duller against the morning sky.

An unwaxed cork tile will look duller in appearance.

L'Insecte, in the same key, but duller, followed.

Cannel is more compact and duller than ordinary coal, and can be wrought in the lathe and polished.

By instinct and temperament he was more impelled to the adventurous toils of exploration than to the duller task of building colonies.

The object now changed from a brilliant white to a duller or dimmer light with an orange tinge.

White, for instance, should be much employed in July, to break the duller blues and purples which then preponderate.

Those on the other hand which reside on the ground have much duller, although as a rule equally protective hues.

In this species the female takes no part in the care of the eggs or young so the male has the duller plumage.

The resulting surface is usually duller and less lustrous than that obtained by the use of molten zinc. Another method of forming a coating of zinc, known as "sherardizing," was invented by Sherard CowperColes, who found that metals embedded in zinc dust (a product obtained in zinc manufacture and consisting of metallic zinc mixed with a certain amount of zinc oxide) and heated to temperatures well below the melting point of zinc, become coated with a layer of that metal.

The principal supply is in West Rutland, Proctor and Pittsford; this, the "Rutland marble," is a duller, less lustrous white, and of a greater durability than the Carrara marble, and is used largely for monuments and statuary.

It is well known in England for its graceful habit, the slender, grey - or white - barked stem, the delicate, drooping branches and the quivering leaves, a bright, clear green in s p r i n g, becoming duller in the summer, but often keeping their greenness rather late into the 5 autumn.

Such twins may therefore be mistaken for simple crystals unless they are attentively studied; but the twinning is often made evident by the presence of irregularly bounded areas of the duller z faces coinciding with the brighter r faces.

These are dispelled by heat and the flint becomes white and duller in lustre.

Excessively corroded metal, or metal treated with filler, emits a duller sound than does unaffected metal.

A Blyth's Pipit was perhaps a somewhat duller side attraction, but a flock of sociable lapwings was most certainly not.

Both sexes have a chestnut mantle and whitish underparts with brown streaks, but the female is duller than the male.

Its leaves resemble those of the Yellow-wood, but are of thicker texture, not so large, and of a duller green.

Imitation pearls do not reflect light in the same manner as natural pearls; they are slightly duller, with a flat, matte finish.

Just look for panties in any style that have a slight sheen on the outside of the fabric and a duller finish on the inside.

This makes the web a duller experience, and breaks some websites completely, but some feel it is better to be safe than sorry.